The project will take about two years to complete, and the Port of Cape Town will also build Seawolf-class warships and Salmon-class armed cargo ships at a rate of five per year. Except for the establishment of the Royal Navy's African Fleet, most of the other ships had to be fed back to Golden River City. At the same time, the Royal Navy will also set up military academies in the ports of Kalamba and Cape Town, specifically absorbing local young people who have learned Chinese, and training them to become sailors and officers of the Royal Navy in case of emergency.

What do you mean by unforeseen need? According to Hong Tao's understanding, it is the current Southern Song Dynasty, Europe five years later, and the Mongol Empire ten years later. These three countries and regions are the biggest enemies that the Golden River Empire will need to face in the future, and once the trade of the countries is connected through sea routes, the first problem that will arise is the imbalance of trade, which is called the trade difference.

The economically backward regions will inevitably become dumping grounds for commodities in economically developed areas, specifically the Jinhe Empire will dump goods all over the world. In a short period of time, countries have not yet felt this thing that only exists in later generations, but after a long time, no one is stupid, and if you do the math, you will know that others earn more than yourself, and then there will definitely be conflicts because of the problem of money.

What should I do if there is a conflict? Of course, negotiate first, communicate with each other, let out a little if you earn too much, don't want to eat a fat man if you earn too little, just endure it if you get some benefits, who makes you fall behind!

However, problems are often not so easy to solve, and once they cannot be negotiated, they will have to face all kinds of economic and policy confrontations, and the final result of confrontation will be war. The Mongol Empire will not be able to produce another large fleet to compete with the Jinhe Empire for supremacy at sea in five to ten years, and they are a little seriously injured this time. The bleeding hasn't stopped yet, and we'll have to wait and see when it can be relieved.

On the European side, Hong Tao does not plan to go too deep for the time being, mainly because he is concerned about religion. The forcible insertion of force into a region with serious religious beliefs is bound to lead to a large-scale war. It is 100% possible that Europeans will organize several more crusaders to fight their own invasion for the sake of their faith. In view of the present state, it is necessary to gain a foothold in the north of the Italian peninsula by purely economic means, and as long as they do not come to provoke themselves, I do not intend to provoke them in the short term.

Compared with the Mongol Empire and Europe, the Southern Song Empire, which had just been rescued by itself, was the one that posed the greatest threat to the Jinhe Empire. And its threat is always there, and it may erupt one day. Having lost the enormous pressure of the invasion of the north, it was a little easier. The smart brains in the Southern Song Dynasty court are a lot of things. In the face of such a powerful maritime giant as the Jinhe Empire, it was impossible for the Southern Song court, which attached great importance to maritime trade, to turn a blind eye. Therefore, if they can develop the army in a down-to-earth manner, it will be impossible not to build a navy that costs more money and food.

What made Hong Tao even more embarrassed was that he could not deal with the Southern Song Dynasty as he did against the Mongol Empire. You can't play those tricks that are too bad. Otherwise, you still have to save it? As for how to deal with the possible maritime threat from the Southern Song Dynasty, Hong Tao had only two options.

One is to continue to promote the ideological transformation of the maritime merchants of the Southern Song Dynasty, and then influence the merchant class of the entire Southern Song Dynasty, so that they can rise up and ask the court for rights and guarantees, which is called driving the wolf and devouring the tiger. Once there was internal strife in the Southern Song Dynasty, they had no time to figure out themselves.

The second is to increase its own strength, that is, to expand the navy, so that the number of navies of the Golden River Empire will increase exponentially. Even in the end, the Southern Song Dynasty court wanted to eat itself in one bite. We also have to see if we have the ability to build thousands of large ships and reliable artillery if we have the ability to build thousands of large ships and reliable artillery. I don't have the ability to do that. It does not constitute a maritime threat to the Golden River Empire.

"Go and call Minister Li, ask her to wait for me at the Prime Minister's Office with Minister Wen, and by the way, go and prepare a table of hot pot for me, and we will eat in the office in the evening." Standing on the slipway of the shipyard, Hong Tao could easily see every ship passing by on the Golden River. When a Flying Fish-class sailing ship with the imperial flag and the coat of arms painted on both sides of the bow passed in front of the shipyard, he put down the drawings in his hand, gave an order to the guards around him, and then left the slipway and walked towards his own boat. That ship was the ship of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and it was also the ship of Wennan. He went to all countries on this boat, and this time he went to a special place, so Hong Tao was anxious to know the result.

The Prime Minister's Office, located in the northeast corner of Jinhe City, is a small three-story building with a concrete frame. If you let the Chinese people of later generations see it, they can immediately recognize that this is a tube building, also called a simple building.

Don't ask, this is another masterpiece of Hong Tao, he can't do Gothic, Baroque, Roman tricks, and he can't even build an ancient Chinese garden, but he can build a tube building. Don't look at this thing is neither beautiful nor beautiful nor majestic, but rare things are expensive, and things that no one has ever seen are often considered advanced, beautiful, and mysterious...... So there is one more in the large number of titles of Emperor Hong Taohong, Master Builder!

Or the toilet master, because he built two toilets on each floor of this tube building, and installed squatting pits that could flush water, and also made small partitions one by one with wooden boards. This move was regarded as a miracle by the people of Jinhe City, and within a month of the completion of the tower, the building used for the office of the Imperial Chancellor and the Imperial Government was almost in time for the Forbidden City, and there were always people who came here to pay homage to the place of reincarnation of grains designed by His Majesty the Emperor.

It would have been even more perfect if he could have squatted on it himself, so much so that the number of slaves responsible for pressurizing water into the tank upstairs had increased from four to twenty, and it still could not meet the needs of the broad masses of the people. In the end, the Imperial Prime Minister Hong was forced to lock the toilet door, because the office funds approved by the parliament were spent like this, and it was not enough for three months.

But there is always a good side to everything, the toilet is not free to visit and try, but there are always smart people who can find business opportunities in it. Two Han people from the north who had burned porcelain at home quickly found their emperor, and nothing else, but to apply to His Majesty the emperor for the right to produce and sell toilet equipment. Because the inventor was the emperor, and the emperor hated all acts of plagiarism, plagiarism, and copycats, which he collectively called theft, and added the imperial criminal law, which was punished more severely than a thief. So in the empire, no one dares to casually steal other people's crafts for their own profit.

"I'm sure to fucking be the stinking emperor ever!" Looking at the equity certificate in his hand, then at the trademark pattern that he was about to apply for, and then at the family portrait hanging on the wall, Hong Tao endured it. Even if there is a mouse head engraved on the squatting pit produced, he endured it, and a penny is difficult for a hero, not to mention a hero who needs to raise a large family and has very strong fertility.

In the middle of the third floor of the building is the office of the Imperial Prime Minister, a total of two rooms, the outer one is a reception room and office, and the inner one is a rest room. On the opposite side of the prime minister's office are the men's and women's toilets on the third floor. They thought that these were the two best rooms in the building, and the two rooms closest to the toilets on the third floor, and that they should be allocated to the Prime Minister.

"I said you guys, who are you who don't flush after pulling! What you ate last night, this smell! Hong Tao and the guards just walked to the door of his office, suddenly stopped, shrugged his nose, turned around and got into the men's toilet, pushed open the door to check the squatting pit, and finally found the culprit. Then his angry duck voice sounded in the corridor, and some people didn't flush the water after the poop was finished, this is already the Nth time, and the prime minister of the Empire has to work part-time as a public toilet cleaner!

"Your Majesty...... Your Majesty, don't shout, don't shout, yes...... It's me! Still flushing? Hong Tao didn't shout in vain, and soon someone came out to claim it.

In fact, every time he doesn't shout in vain, he guarantees that someone will come out quickly to admit his mistake. If no one admits their mistake, the emperor, the prime minister, the minister of defense, and the minister of supervision, dare to lead the guards to search and inquire from house to house, and the culprit will not be finished until the culprit is found. After finding out, it is a punishment for cleaning the toilet for a month, and if you take the initiative to admit it, you will be scolded at most.

"Come on, come on, Lao Wen, you haven't used this thing yet, don't blame those who don't know. I'll teach you, see that this rope is not used, and it is used up so ...... Hey, hey, hey, all the sins will be washed away......" Hong Tao turned his head and saw that the person who was not particular this time was none other than Wen Nan, who had just returned from the mission. The scolding is certainly avoidable, but it is not possible to teach the foreign minister how to use the flushing urinal correctly, and it is best to praise His Majesty the Emperor for his invention.

"Mr. Prime Minister, let's get down to business, there will be a meeting in the ministry in a while, and I don't have time to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the toilet with you here." Before Wen Nan's words of praise were brewed, Li Niang interjected at the door of the toilet. She is good-looking, but she was born with a class struggle face, and she has no sense of humor, she doesn't say a word except to talk about business, and she rarely smiles at Hong Tao, as if she has never been.

"Hey, Oguri, that's not right, we can't scold the cook when we're full! You haven't used an emperor toilet? Haven't enjoyed the convenience it brings? Be kind...... You see, I have engraved my own emblem on the toilet bowl for your convenience, and every time you use it, don't you remember my good son? Not hearing Wen Nan's praise, Hong Tao was very unhappy, so this broken mouth began to spray poison. Standing in the toilet and saying that eating was not enough, he actually pointed to the rat head emblem engraved on the toilet and shouted injustice.

“…… I will never use it again! Li Niang's face suddenly turned red, and then she turned her head and walked into the prime minister's office opposite, and the door was still slammed.

(To be continued.) )